Root Sports and KPTV will be the Portland Timbers regional and local broadcast partners, the team announced Tuesday morning.

Root Sports will televise 16 regular-season Timbers
games this season in high definition this season. KPTV (Fox 12) and its sister station KPDX, will broadcast 11 Timbers games this season.

The combination of Root Sports, along with nationally televised games on ESPN's family of networks, Fox Soccer Channel and KPTV (Fox 12) means that all 34 Timbers games will be broadcast on live television.

"The appetite for Timbers' soccer is great and growing. People are hungry to experience the Timbers either live or on television," said Mike Golub, the Timbers chief operating officer. "Our goal from the start was to have every game broadcast in high definition. It's not typical for a MLS team to have all of it games - home and away - being televised live."

KPTV
will also feature a weekly recap and highlight show, titled “Timbers in 30,”
each Sunday during the season at 6 p.m. (PT).

"To have a weekly highlight show is also something that's unusual in MLS," Golub said. "The show is designed for people who haven't had a chance to watch the game to see the game in a condensed fashion. And for people who did see the game, they can get analysis, highlights and features."

The Timbers added that KXTG (95.5 FM) will broadcast all games on radio. Some games (including the season opener at Colorado March 19) will be broadcast on KXL (750 AM). La Estrella television (KGW 8.3 on digital over the air) and La Cantera (KWBY 940 AM) will be the team's Spanish language television and radio partners.

"This announcement is the culmination of many months of negotiation," Golub said. "They want to be a part of it."

Root Sports is the new name under a rebranding effort of the FSN Northwest, FSN Rocky Mountain and FSN Pittsburgh sports networks by owner DirecTV. FSN, which stood for Fox Sports Net, is owned by DirecTV and the new Root Sports is part of its effort to revamped and retool the networks.